Der Neue Aesop: Eine klassiche Fabelsammlung von Lessing, Gellert, Pfeffel und Anderen

Title

en_US Der Neue Aesop: Eine klassiche Fabelsammlung von Lessing, Gellert, Pfeffel und Anderen

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Vierte Auflage

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Mit 144 Illustrationen von Ernest Griset

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:29Z

en_US 2000-12

en_US 1910?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US Here is a very frail old book, whose spine is deteriorating and pages are brittle. A T of C follows the title-page immediately, showing fables on some 287 pages. The one author I have noticed named but not mentioned on the title-page is Lichtwer. The texts are a mixture of prose and verse. Many are unattributed. Those attributed seem to come principally from Lessing, Gellert (J.G.), and Pfeffel. The total of one hundred-and-forty-four images from Griset would seem to make this book dependent on the revised and enlarged version of Griset's work, which may have first appeared in 1874-5 with one hundred and fifty-nine illustrations. The first edition had appeared in 1869 with ninety-three illustrations. The very first images here are the full-page Der Woelfe und der kranke Esel (5) and the smaller, well-known Die beiden Froesche (7). A curious feature of this book is its first piece, Statt des Vorworts: Die beraubte Fabel by Lichtwer. In it, the goddess of all poets, Fable, wanders into a strange land, where evil creatures find her alone on the street. Her delivery purse is empty, and so they demand instead that she give up her clothes. When she takes everything off, she disappears and the naked Truth stands before them. They feel ashamed, ask forgiveness, and give her her clothes back. Who can (bear to) see the truth naked? I have no idea where or when I got this book, but it was certainly before July of 2002.

Identifier

en_US 5479 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81013

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Verlag von J. Jolowicz

en_US Berlin

Subject

en_US PA3855.G6 N48 1910 See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole